Cool New Site – Glogster
This site, Glogster, is a really fun and interactive way to get students to share their work, images, videos, documents and more. It is so easy anyone can do it. Select from so many styles, themes, images, text features and audio/video players. This is a simple and graphical way to create a really hip, cool and fun web site or poster as they call it. You have got to see this one!!! It is worth the trip. Share and publish for free.
Adobe Brio
Wow, you have to check this out. Adobe has a free web conferencing tool. So quick and easy to use for webinars. I am using this right now. So cool and easy. Hold webinars for free. Share your desktops, collaborate, discuss. This is a must have!! Check it out. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/brio/
MIT Open Course Ware
1800 courses available online. Totally free resources for teaching and learning.
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm Imagine reading and watching the professors and students at MIT. Anyone can attend, it’s open to all. This will transform the reliable information on the internet.
Students 2.0 is Now Open!!
http://students2oh.org/ You have to check this out. Students blogging for students. A great way for student voices to be heard. Get your students to submit a post or comment. It will be monitored and reviewed by the student creators. What a great idea and resource. Check it out!!
Microsoft’s Popfly
A really great resource from Microsoft. I am not a huge fan of them, but this is one worth looking into. Easy build web pages and mashups. It took me about five minutes to download, install a simple application “Silverlight” create and account and log in and then run the web based application. http://www.popfly.ms/users/ccapozzoli/IT%20On%20The%20Fly Here is what I did in about 2 minutes. Simple styles, themes, layouts, designs and more. There are demo tutorials videos to watch many tutorial help throughout. I will be sharing this with my Tech Ed. people and students at the high school levels. I would imagine that they would enjoy building and creating 24/7. I am going to teach some of my high school students how to use the tool and pilot it for me.
Create an Animated Gif!!
This is a really cool tool!! I happened to stumble upon it on the Web 2.0 Directory. It’s called gifup. You can upload or use flickr photos for this. Create an animated gif to embed anywhere!!! http://www.gifup.com/ It’s really easy to use. Have your students create a photo montage of places they have been or locations found in Google Earth. They will love it.
